Survey & Certification:
Beware Aide Competency Testing Under Final IGs
Published on Fri Sep 14, 2018
Medicare tweaked testing IGs — but not enough. The final Interpretive Guidelines for the Home Health Conditions of Participation contain a little good news and a lot of bad news for home health agencies when it comes to competency testing for home health aides. The downside of the final IGs is that competency testing for aides “still requires that validation [...]